Americans Sweep Sundogs

Americans Gain Weekend Sweep Over 'Dogs

The Allen Americans and Steve Silverthorn earned the first shutout in the CHL for the 2012-13 season thanks to Silverthorn’s 30 save performance in his team’s 4-0 victory at the Allen Event Center on Saturday night.

Scotty Howes paced the Americans offense with a pair of goals and Adam Pineault and Darryl Bootland each found the back of the net giving the home team more than enough to get past the Sundogs.

Arizona was the busier team outshooting the Americans 30-16 and they had six power play chances compared to just four for Allen but they could not find the back of the net.

Howes, Bootland, Pineault and Brett Skinner each had two point games.

The Allen Americans scored three consecutive power play goals on Sunday afternoon en route to a 4-3 shootout win over the visiting Arizona Sundogs.  The win gives the Americans a weekend sweep over Arizona in their back-to-back games.

The Americans shined in the shootout with all four skaters scoring against Arizona’s Adam Russo but it was Jamie Schaafsma’s goal that would earn credit for the game winner.

Adam Pineault, Jarret Lukin and Darryl Bootland scored the PP goals for Allen.

Arizona’s David Schlemko scored the game’s first goal with a shorthanded strike, he later added an assist as well.

Jason Morgan and Mario Larocque also scored goals for the Sundogs.

Steve Silverthorn made 26 saves improving to 2-0 on the season, while Russo made 22 saves taking the loss.